Month: January 2015

You be the Judge

by Bev, posted in Dating

I met this man late July 2010 at the airport as I waited for a flight to Amsterdam.  We started dating after my return to the states.  This romance lasted until Christmas of the same year.  By that time I knew him better and decided that before 2011 I would end our short bittersweet intimacy.  In short – by November; he wasn’t who I thought he was.

 My Darling Rodney, …September 9, 2010

 I could say I’ve learned what the real meaning of love is due to past experiences and misguided adventures into the realms of infatuations, but now I know love means much more than an unbalanced superficial attraction of those looking for love in all the wrong places.

Kinship, affection, laughter, tenderness, admiration, common interest, warmth, enthusiasm, devotion, and a passion that won’t be contained is what I’m experiencing with YOU.

You thrill me, make me laugh, and soothe my spirit with your watery soul.  My fish runs upstream…almost dragging me along as we wade through a world filled with all matters of deceptions.

I don’t fear you Baby, but easily feel your tug and pull.  Hold me tight.  I won’t break as I lay my head against your chest to rest in still waters that run deep.

Trust

by Bev, posted in Spirituality

Why is it so difficult too place confidence in God’s ability to take care of all of our needs?  Is it because we cannot see God?  Or is it because we are not looking for God in all we see?

As humans we place confidence in the traditions of men who treat us as property, to be used for their benefit.  But we hesitate when the anticipation of God should be our primary concern.

Are we concerned about what is best for us, or are we concerned about worldly expectations based on our need to be a part of a secular system, of erroneous expectations, built on foundations unreliable, and not worthy of our devotion?

Human beings rely on five senses as confirmation of what we think is real.  Our reality rests in what seems legitimate, what seems unimagined, and not pretended.  But, our senses have limits and we cannot perceive into the hearts of those we love.  Sometimes we realize, after much ado, that our trust has been misplaced.

Giving God our complete trust causes us to feel anxious from the start because we cannot see him walking beside us.  We fail to realize that if we trust him, we don’t need to see him, but we must feel him.  He is not a human being; he is a spirit, with all power.  He does not pretend to love us, he is sincere in all he does, and there are no limits on his power to keep us safe in his custody.  He helps us to do well, which heightens our self-esteem and gives us a certain assurance that he is all we need.